I've never done an album like this. With Biophilia, I was being like Kofi Annan - I had to be the pacifist to try to unite the impossible. Maybe that was a strange, personal job between me and myself, to show how overreaching I was being as a woman. The only way I could express that was by comparing it to the universe.

I do try and wear stuff by unknown designers, and I make sure I pay because if nothing else I have money.

I think every year brings unknowns that you have to deal with and handle, confront and embrace.

If nothing else, I have money.

It's a sign that you have a good work relationship if you don't have to analyze. That's usually a good sign within creative work.

I have nothing against Kanye West. Help me with this - I'm not dissing him - this is about how people talk about him. With the last album he did, he got all the best beatmakers on the planet at the time to make beats for him. A lot of the time, he wasn't even there. Yet no one would question his authorship for a second.

I get obsessed by little nerdy things in my corner that no one else is interested in.